Susan B. Sorenson, PhD

University of Pennsylvania
School of Social Policy and Practice
3815 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
USA 19104

Biographical Sketch: To the moderator - I don't know what you want to emphasize in your introductions - I've copied & pasted below something from our department website - use whatever seems relevant to this audience. Thanks - see you Tuesday morning. -SBS Susan B. Sorenson is from the University of Pennsylvania where she is • Professor of Social Policy • Professor of Health & Societies • Senior Fellow in Public Health • Director, Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center Professor Susan B. Sorenson has a unique interdisciplinary background in epidemiology, sociology, and psychology. She moved to Penn in 2006 after more than 20 years at the UCLA School of Public Health. With more than 100 publications to her credit, Professor Sorenson has published widely in the epidemiology and prevention of violence, including the areas of homicide, suicide, sexual assault, child abuse, battering, and firearms. A primary focus of her work is how gender, ethnicity, and nativity are related to risk of violence. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Sorenson has served on the board of directors and advisory boards of local community-based organizations, state government agencies, and university injury prevention centers. In 1991, she co-founded the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles, a broad coalition of agencies and individuals which continues to this day. She has provided invited testimony on violence prevention at the state and federal levels. Professor Sorenson was a member of the National Academy of Science’s Panel on Research on Violence Against Women, a consultant to President Clinton's National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women, a consultant to UNICEF’s May 2000 report on Domestic Violence Against Women and Girls, a member of the advisory panel for the 2001 U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Youth Violence, and the author of a WHO report on health indicators of violence against children in low- and middle-income countries.

Papers:
3215.1 Laws to protect intimate partners from armed abusers 3415.0 Self-presentation on the web: U.s. agencies serving abused and assaulted women 4173.0 Global epidemiology of intimate partner strangulation: A systematic review of prevalence among representative samples of community-residing adults